“Students who research a topic related to a personal fandom feel more confident in the research process because they are already positioned as an expert…” #FanLIS2025

Next! Amber Sewell with Fandom does belong in the classroom: Designing a study of fandom, student confidence, and intertextual expertise #FanLIS2025

Chason-McCarthy discusses critically endangered crafts that fanbinding can revitalize, e.g. foreedge painting, paper marbling, tanning. #FanLIS2025

Distracted by personal stuff from live-blogging #FanLIS2025, sorry!

Chason-McCarthy conducted ethnography at Renegade Bindery Discord and TikTok fanbinding community. #FanLIS2025

Chason-McCarthy draws a connection between fanfiction purges from places like LiveJournal and Tumblr and fanbinding and is also suggesting that book bans in the US in school & public libraries might also be connected to fanbinding. #FanLIS2025

Beck Chason-McCarthy with Multi-Sited Ethnography of Online Fan Binding communities: implications for LIS fields and Allied Crafts #FanLIS2025

Nelson is interested in how we can use parafandom to delineate the different intentions behind disinformation and misinformation, and how we can use knowledge tools, classification, tags, etc to identify it. #FanLIS2025

Everything Nelson is sharing is fascinating but my brain just isn’t processing quickly enough to live-blog it. #FanLIS2025

Nelson is discussing the relationship between dis/misinformation and parafandom. #FanLIS2025

Next up Melissa D. Nelson with Almost, beyond, or alongside fandom? An alternative frame for QAnon #FanLIS2025

There are increasing mentions and interest in pink kryptonite in both canon and fanfiction. The use of pink kryptonite raises significant questions of consent for Superman. #FanLIS2025

In some of these fanfic, other characters use pink kryptonite or their own abilities to impact Superman. #FanLIS2025

Fanfic featuring pink kryptonite tends to also incorporate other obscure elements from Superman/DC. #FanLIS2025

Ue and Starzomski-Wilson are discussing 3 fanfiction texts, undated but apparently from the 90s, and it’s hard to tell from a particular fanfiction which canonical representation of pink kryptonite it’s responding to. #FanLIS2025

In a couple of comics, pink kryptonite causes Superman to be attracted to Jimmy Olsen. In a short Justice League cartoon, pink kryptonite turns Superman into a woman. In an episode of Harley Quinn, pink kryptonite is reported to “swap gender.” #FanLIS2025

So far Ue and Starzomski-Wilson have identified 4 canonical uses of pink kryptonite. #FanLIS2025

In canon, pink kryptonite affects sex/gender. Fans writing stories featuring pink kryptonite tend to do a lot of research and apply it consistently with canon.

Tom Ue and Kristofer Starzomski-Wilson up next with Make It Pink: Superman, Pink Kryptonite, and Fandom #FanLIS2025

Dreßler “Not everything is queer just because it appears to be.” #FanLIS2025

German-speaking fans do identify gaps but tend to fill gaps with heteronormative content even in queer stories. #FanLIS2025

Dreßler is sharing so much in the findings portion that I can’t keep up! #FanLIS2025

Stories Dreßler analyzed tend to apply heteronormative tropes to queer relationships. #FanLIS2025

Dreßler looked at fanfiction on fanfiction.de, analyzed 40 stories from the Sailor Moon and Naruto fandoms, focusing on gay main characters (as represented in the fic, not necessarily the original text), the most popular stories, and stories that are downloadable and citable. #FanLIS2025

Next! Saskia Dreßler with How subversive is shipping really? An analysis of heteronormative elements in same-sex relationships focused on German-language anime and manga fan fiction